Repost for a friend who lived in Newfoundland too

Goofy Newf

Papa says she was born in the base hospital. But then, he actually wasn't there and is not able to attest to the "where" factor. Specifically, we all know the nurse sent him back to the office to wait it out while Granny was in labor, and that he dutifully returned to his accounting responsibilities until the fireworks ended. "Show me the baby," he said. And she did. That's all there was to "Husband-Coached Childbirth" way back then.

By contrast, some of the U.S. documentation of her birth states plainly that "a child was born to two American parents and was delivered at the U.S. embassy." Well, there is no embassy in Newfoundland, its in Ottawa, a bit of a distance to travel. This is beginning to sound like a coverup of some kind. Why would Granny be spirited away to Ottawa for childbirth without the knowledge of her husband? How was she able to return before he started asking questions? These are troubling issues.

To make matters worse, the birth certificate was actually issued by the Canadian Government in Gander, Newfoundland, a different direction from the base than Ottawa.

As a result of these confusing natal facts, and as you might expect, its no simple matter when someone asks her for her birth certificate. While I'm told that sometimes she can satisfy an inquiry by showing the “Gander paperwork,” if the requestor actually wants to see some proof of her U.S. Citizenship (which curiously, she chose on her eighteenth birthday when the issue was forced in the wake of the Watergate scandal and the Democrats taking a two thirds majority in the House), it doesn’t work.

Inquiring minds want to know: "where was this child born," but she clearly discloses that fact on a “need-to-know” basis. Do these matters reveal the real reason Transplant has moved to the far north, far away from Jerusalem-on-the-Brazos?

I just report the facts. You be the judge.
©2006 David R. Childress. All Rights Reserved